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The semi-analytical wall boundary conditions present a mathematically rigorous framework to prescribe the influence of solid walls in SPH for fluid flows. In this paper they are investigated with respect to the skew-adjoint property which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Arno Mayrhofer , Benedict D. Rogers , Damien Violeau , Martin Ferrand

We are concerned with rigidity properties of steady Euler flows in two-dimensional bounded annuli. We prove that in an annulus, a steady flow with no interior stagnation point and tangential boundary conditions is a circular flow, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Yuchen Wang , Weicheng Zhan

We study experimentally, numerically and analytically, the dynamics of a chiral active particle (cm-sized robots), pulled at a constant translational velocity. We show that the system can be mapped to a Brownian particle driven across a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-26 Juan Pablo Carrillo-Mora , Adrià Garcés , Demian Levis

Biological systems achieve precise control over ambient fluids through the self-organization of active protein structures including flagella, cilia, and cytoskeletal networks. In active structures individual proteins consume chemical energy…

We numerically explore the behavior of repelling and aligning self-propelled polar particles (boids) in 2D enclosed by a damped flexible and elastic loop-shaped boundary. We observe disordered, polar ordered (or jammed) and circulating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 A. C. Quillen , J. P. Smucker , A. Peshkov

We numerically study the dynamics of a passive fluid droplet confined within a microchannel whose walls are covered with a thin layer of active gel. The latter represents a fluid of extensile material modelling, for example, a suspension of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-10 A. Tiribocchi , M. Durve , M. Lauricella , A. Montessori , S. Succi

The interaction of surfaces in relative motion in wet environments is dominated by lubrication forces, which play a pivotal role in the dynamics of microscopic systems. Here, we develop motile vesicles that exploit lubrication forces to…

The lubrication theory is mostly concerned with the behavior of a lubricant flowing through a narrow gap. Motivated by the experimental findings from the tribology literature, we take the lubricant to be micropolar fluid and study its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Matthieu Bonnivard , Igor Pazanin , Francisco Suarez-Grau

Examples of fluid flows driven by undulating boundaries are found in nature across many different length scales. Even though different driving mechanisms have evolved in distinct environments, they perform essentially the same function:…

We show, using direct numerical simulations with experimentally realizable boundary conditions, that wall modes in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a rapidly rotating cylinder persist even very far from their linear onset. These nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-28 Benjamin Favier , Edgar Knobloch

This fluid dynamics video submitted to the Gallery of Fluid motion shows a turbulent boundary layer developing under a 5 metre-long flat plate towed through water. A stationary imaging system provides a unique view of the developing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 J. H. Lee , Y. S. Kwon , N. Hutchins , J. P. Monty

The lubricated motion of an object near a deformable boundary presents striking subtleties arising from the coupling between the elasticity of the boundary and lubricated flow, including but not limited to the emergence of a lift force…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-08 Aditya Jha , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

Chiral active fluids show the emergence of a turbulent behavior characterized by multiple dynamic vortices whose maximum size is specific for each experimental system. This is in contrast to hydrodynamic simulations in which the size of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-26 Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao , Gerhard Gompper , Marisol Ripoll

Depth averaged conservation equations are written for granular surface flows. Their application to the study of steady surface flows in a rotating drum allows to find experimentally the constitutive relations needed to close these equations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-26 D. Bonamy , F. Daviaud , L. Laurent

An active chiral rotor is a spherical object that can generate chiral flows in a fluid by rotating about an axis. For example, if the flow around the upper hemisphere of the chiral rotor is in a clockwise direction, then the flow in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 R. Maity , Snigdha Thakur , P. S. Burada

We study, experimentally, the dynamics of a binary mixture of air-fluidized disks. The disks are chiral since they incorporate a set of blades with constant tilt. Both species are identical except for their blades tilt angle, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Miguel Ángel López-Castaño , Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas , Francisco Vega Reyes

Contact of a fluid with a solid or an elastic wall is investigated. The wall exerts molecular forces on the fluid which is locally strongly nonhomogeneous. The problem is approached with a fluid energy of the second gradient form and a wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-15 Henri Gouin , Witold Kosinski

We consider the motion of a rigid body due to the pressure of a surrounded two-dimensional irrotational perfect incompressible fluid, the whole system being confined in a bounded domain with an impermeable condition on a part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Olivier Glass , József Kolumbán , Franck Sueur

In this paper we consider the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary with appropriate control on its mean curvature and conformal class. We obtain higher order estimates for the curvature and second fundamental form near the boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Panagiotis Gianniotis

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the micropolar fluid flow through a thin domain assuming zero Dirichlet boundary condition on the top boundary, which is rapidly oscillating, and non-standard boundary conditions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 María Anguiano , Francisco J. Suárez-Grau